SKET supplies the largest machine in the world for the armouring of Offshore Power Cable

SKET Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH has recently scaled new heights related to the output of the company and the size of the machines which it has  designed and delivered. During recent months the company supplied the largest tandem cage type stranding machine in the world to a Scandanavian cable producer for the armouring of Offshore Power Cable having a diameter of up to 350 mm.

The machine, a type MKVD 96×800+112×800, is 150 m long, not including the turn-tables at the input and the take-up ends. It  consists in the main of two stranding cages arranged to accommodate 96 and 112 bobbins respectively, the bobbins having a flange diameter of 800 mm and being suitable for up to 7 mm diameter steel wire. The stranding cages can be operated either with 100% or with 0% back twist in single or in tandem mode. The machine is suitable for the stranding of galvanized or plastic insulated round or flat steel wire and copper and aluminium alloy wire. A particular technical feature of the machine is that each  of the cages is fitted with a single cradle which can accommodate bobbins having a flange diameter of 1000 mm suitable for fibre optic conductors. These bobbins are arranged to operate with a single reverse twist

The stranding system is comleted by  tape wrapping heads suitable for the application of four tapes, jute applicators for up to 72 copses, special die boxes and pre-form heads and a number of band haul-offs. Semi-automtic portal cranes are provided for the loading and unloading of the machine bobbins.

With the fulfilment of major contracts for leading wire rope and cable producers worldwide, including among others General Cable, NKT, BRIDON, Kiswire and Brunton Shaw, SKET Verseilmaschinenbau GmbH has demonstrated its ability and its reliability as a supplier time and time again. In recent years the company has continued to develop and is now the leading supplier of machinery and equipment for the manufacture of cable and steel wire rope.

André Jopp
Vertriebsmitarbeiter

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